7 DECEMBER 1985, page 38

A. N. Wilson

My favourite book of 1985 was The Diaries of Auberon Waugh 1976-1985. Not only are they by far the sanest commentary on that gloomy decade. They rise far above the level of......

Hugh Cecil

Best books: The Arrow edition of Philip Caputo's A Rumor of War — the best account of Vietnam fighting to date and not to be lumped in the same category as third-rate works like......

Alastair Forbes

Let me very seriously urge everyone to buy or borrow a book I hope soon to review at the length it deserves, The Berlin Diaries (1940-1945) of Marie Missie' Vassiltchi- kov.......